farm concubine

Chapter 4 A Bag of Potatoes

As soon as Mrs. Deng finished speaking, the room fell silent.

Li Rulin just looked at her with a gloomy expression, and didn't make a sound for a while.

Li Wanqing was also very speechless, why did she get such a cheap grandma?

Li Ruying also didn't believe that his mother-in-law was so unreasonable. Thinking of his wife's laziness, without Lin's family in the future, she didn't know what it would be like.

"Alas—" A soft sigh broke the silence in the room: "The child's father, I promise." Now Lin Shuirou finally knows how much her mother-in-law hates her. Since she can't change it, she can only accept it calmly. She is only 45 and six years old now, and she is still a long way from the time she said. I don't know what changes will happen by then, and I can only deal with it in order to separate the family.

"Shuirou——" Li Rulin didn't want Lin Shurou to be wronged in his heart, but now he made her suffer, how could he feel better?
But seeing Lin Shuirou's firm eyes, Li Rulin could only nod and agree: "Okay."

"Ruying, go and get that bag of potatoes from the house." Receiving an affirmative answer from Li Rulin and his wife, Mrs. Deng turned to Li Ruying.

"Mom, you can't be..."

"Hurry up, don't go on and on." Li Ruying asked Deng to stop before she finished speaking.

"Mother, are you really going to do this?" After all, Li Rulin is his elder brother, his mother is old, but he is not.

"Even you don't listen to me anymore, do you?" Mrs. Deng glared at Li Ruying.

Being stared at by Deng Shi like this, Li Ruying swallowed her unspoken words, and walked out of the room with her head drooping.

After a while, Li Ruying came over with a bag: "Mom, I brought the potatoes you asked for."

"Take this bag of potatoes and get the hell out of this house immediately." Deng yelled at Li Rulin.

"Mu Chen, help your mother carry the burden, your mother has to support your sister." After Li Rulin explained, he stepped out of the door and carried the bag of potatoes on his shoulders.

After Lin Shuirou's three children came out, she said to Li Ruying solemnly: "Take good care of our mother."

Seeing Li Rulin's family with only a small bundle and a bag of potatoes, Li Ruying nodded and said with a choked voice, "Well, brother, I will."

Looking at Deng Shi silently again, Li Rulin carried the potatoes and walked towards the gate of the courtyard, Li Muchen followed behind with a small bundle, Lin Shuirou supported Li Wanqing and followed closely behind the two.

Li Ruying didn't turn her head until she couldn't see Li Rulin's family of four, "Mother, why are you doing this?"

"Isn't his wings hard? I'll see how long he can be hard, hum!" Deng turned his head and stepped heavily, and slammed the door of the room.

Looking at the closed door, Li Ruying shook her head helplessly.

……

Looking at the three empty thatched houses, Li Wanqing was in a mess in the wind. There is no pot or stove, how are they going to cook?

"Shuirou, I still have some money on me. I'll go to Lao Lin's house at the entrance of the village to buy a pot." Li Rulin said softly, putting down the potatoes on his shoulders.

"Well, the child's father, you go, Xiaochen and I will clean the house first." Lin Shuirou nodded.

Finding a clean stone, Lin Shuirou supported Li Wanqing to sit down, rolled up her sleeves, and was about to start working.

"Mother, there is no broom here, how do you and Xiaochen clean?" Seeing the empty room, Li Wanqing asked suspiciously.

Lin Shuirou didn't answer Li Wanqing's words right away, she just went to the courtyard wall and pulled a roll of weeds silently, then looked back at Li Wanqing with raised eyebrows: "Isn't that all there is?"

Looking at the green 'broom' in Lin Shuirou's hand, Li Wanqing laughed softly: "My mother is smart."

No wonder people say that the wisdom of crowds is infinite.

Lin Shuirou found a wooden stick, pulled a straw vine, tied up the freshly rolled green 'broom', rolled another one for Li Muchen, and the two mother and son began to clean.

Seeing that Lin Shuirou and Li Muchen were very busy, Li Wanqing couldn't sit still anymore, and wanted to pull some weeds when she stood up.

"Qing'er, what are you doing standing up?" Li Wanqing just stood up, and Lin Shuirou exclaimed.

Li Wanqing smiled slightly: "Mom, I also want to help."

"Your injury hasn't healed yet, so sit down quickly, and you'll be fine with your mother and your brother."

"Mom, it's okay."

"Sister, just listen to your mother and sit down quickly." Li Muchen also stopped what he was doing, and helped Lin Shuirou persuade Li Wanqing.

"Mother, Xiaochen..." Li Wanqing wanted to persuade Lin Shuirou and Li Muchen to help clean up, but just as she started, she saw Lin Shuirou pull her face down and stare at her, so she had to change it to her lips Saying: "Then I will sit in the yard, so as not to interfere with your work."

Li Wanqing walked slowly to the small yard and sat down on a stone.

Seeing Li Wanqing sitting down in the small courtyard, Lin Shuirou resumed her work.

Li Wanqing looked at the scenery in the small courtyard. The courtyard was not very big, surrounded by adobe walls, and facing the courtyard gate were three thatched houses. There are weeds as tall as a person, the windows of the house are broken, and the roof has big holes and small holes.

Outside the yard is a small soil slope. Because it is at the end of the village, no one comes to cultivate it, and the soil slope is also full of weeds.

"Qing'er, why are you alone, where are your parents?" Just as Li Wanqing was thinking about planting something on the slope, Li Ruying's voice sounded from the door.

"Second Uncle." Li Wanqing stood up and looked at Li Ruying who was carrying a basket on her shoulder.

Li Ruying walked in: "Where are your parents?"

"Father went to buy pots, and mother and younger brother cleaned the house."

Li Ruying put down the basket on her shoulders and called into the room: "Sister-in-law, I brought some things over here."

Hearing Li Ruying's shout, Lin Shuirou put down the 'broom' and ran out: "His second uncle, why are you here?"

"Sister-in-law, I thought you had no cooking pot, no oil and salt, so I brought some here." Li Ruying said with a smile, pointing to the baskets on the ground.

"His second uncle, you bring these things here, mother, does she know?"

"Sister-in-law, mother treats you badly, and I, as the second uncle, can't treat my nephew and niece badly."

"Where is Mother?" Thinking of Deng's prejudice against her, Lin Shuirou hesitated.

"Sister-in-law, you have me over there, so you can take everything. I even brought the pot, so I can't starve the two children."

Li Wanqing smiled sweetly, "Thank you, Second Uncle."

Li Muchen also thanked him.

"Sister-in-law, you can accept it, the children have all thanked me." Li Ruying laughed.

Taking advantage of Lin Shuirou's hesitation, Li Ruying turned around and said, "Sister-in-law, I still have something to do at home, so I won't stay any longer." After speaking, she lifted her foot and left.

"Oh, his second uncle." But no matter how Lin Shuirou yelled, Li Ruying didn't look back.

Li Wanqing looked into the basket, and really saw a small pot in the basket, and there were three small bottles in the small pot. When he lifted the lid of the small bottle, he saw that the three small bottles were filled with lard, salt and soy sauce respectively. It's so bright, it's dinner tonight.

(End of this chapter)